Support for GRAND PIANO
(What to title this post...?)
According to Screen Daily, an organization called The Solution Entertainment Group will be working with the producers of GRAND PIANO at Cannes in order to help the film get picked up by an international distributor.
I could see this article for a second, long enough to skim it, and then suddenly it disappeared and became subscription-only content. Deadline reposted the story (but won't let me hotlink; go to Deadline.com and search Elijah's name and you should find the article):
Ahead of the company’s first Cannes, Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel’s The Solution Entertainment Group has acquired international rights to psychological thriller Grand Piano from the producing team of Adrian Guerra and Rodrigo Cortés. Elijah Wood will star in the project to be directed by Eugenio Mira from a script by Damien Chazelle. Shooting is scheduled to begin in July, under Guerra and Cortés’ Nostromo Pictures. Story sets Wood as a piano virtuoso forced into early retirement because of crippling stage fright. When he returns to the stage, the recital turns deadly and he is forced to literally play for his life. The Solution will commence sales at Cannes next week where Wilson tells me she’ll be aided by former Icon UK head of sales Anthony Buckner. Wood, who’s currently filming Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, also stars in the Cannes official selection midnight screening title Maniac. He’s repped by WME, Brillstein Entertainment and Stone Meyer.
But Deadline makes it sound as if The Solution is itself a distributor that's picked up the international rights to the film, which is not what the original article at Screen Daily seems to say. The Solution seems to be more like an agent for the movie itself; they'll represent the movie at Cannes and network all the negotiations with prospective distributors. Fingers crossed they'll be successful.
According to Screen Daily, an organization called The Solution Entertainment Group will be working with the producers of GRAND PIANO at Cannes in order to help the film get picked up by an international distributor.
I could see this article for a second, long enough to skim it, and then suddenly it disappeared and became subscription-only content. Deadline reposted the story (but won't let me hotlink; go to Deadline.com and search Elijah's name and you should find the article):
Ahead of the company’s first Cannes, Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel’s The Solution Entertainment Group has acquired international rights to psychological thriller Grand Piano from the producing team of Adrian Guerra and Rodrigo Cortés. Elijah Wood will star in the project to be directed by Eugenio Mira from a script by Damien Chazelle. Shooting is scheduled to begin in July, under Guerra and Cortés’ Nostromo Pictures. Story sets Wood as a piano virtuoso forced into early retirement because of crippling stage fright. When he returns to the stage, the recital turns deadly and he is forced to literally play for his life. The Solution will commence sales at Cannes next week where Wilson tells me she’ll be aided by former Icon UK head of sales Anthony Buckner. Wood, who’s currently filming Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, also stars in the Cannes official selection midnight screening title Maniac. He’s repped by WME, Brillstein Entertainment and Stone Meyer.
But Deadline makes it sound as if The Solution is itself a distributor that's picked up the international rights to the film, which is not what the original article at Screen Daily seems to say. The Solution seems to be more like an agent for the movie itself; they'll represent the movie at Cannes and network all the negotiations with prospective distributors. Fingers crossed they'll be successful.